Man in the Iron Mask (section Dauger serves as a valet)
this event and this valet's arrest in Calais, later that month. Barnes (1908) presents James de la Cloche, the alleged illegitimate son of the reluctant...
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Hôtel de Besenval (section Entre cour et jardin)
rumour that the Baronne de Besenval never denied. However, in September 1725, Voltaire wrote from the Château de Versailles to Madame La Présidente de Bernières...
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1782, two promotions which made his fellow general officers jealous. The baronne d'Oberkirch visited Brest in June 1782 with the future Tsar Paul I and...
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Charles-Alexandre de Calonne, 1784. Royal Collection. Baronne de Crussol, 1785. Musée des Augustins. Comtesse de La Châtre, 1789. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Self-portrait...
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"Plum Pudding à la St. George." Chicken sauté George Sand – George Sand, the pseudonym of French author Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, Baronne Dudevant (1804–1876)...
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Tchaikovsky (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973) Troyat, Henri. La Baronne et le Musicien. Madame von Meck et Tchaïkovski. Editions Grasset. 2006. Wolfurt...
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the Second Amendment. Berrett-Koehler Publishers. p. 48. Roark, James L.; et al. (2008). The American Promise, Volume I: To 1877: A History of the United...
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Maucroix et la marquise de Brosses. Au pays de Louise de La Vallière. L'"Estelle" de Florian : Madame Gonthier. Une figure d'Alsace : la baronne d'Oberkirch...
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